Brandon Dimmel

NetBalancer With NetBalancer, you can lower network priority of certain tasks (such as your downloads using bittorrnet). NetBalancer is an Internet traffic control and monitoring tool designed for Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / Win7 (64 bit editions ... will be supported next release). You can use NetBalancer to set download / upload transfer rate priority for any applications and monitor their Internet traffic. http://seriousbit.com TestDisk TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and make non-booting disks bootable again when ... (view more)

Steven Sinofsky Microsoft's president of Windows Live division yesterday discussed Microsoft's highly-anticipated Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) at the MIX10 conference in Last Vegas. Building hype was clearly at the top of his agenda, but not escaping ... the presentation was this tidbit: IE9 won't run on Windows XP. "We've built Internet Explorer 9 from the ground up on top of the Windows 7 platform," Sinofsky giddily reported to his Sin City crowd during Internet Explorer general manager Dean Hachamovitch's keynote address. (Source: seattlepi.com ) Internet Explorer 9: New Graphics Engine Sinofsky ... (view more)

Say what you will about the iPad's unique (or, according to some critics, 'questionable') design, the upcoming Apple device is already being well received by consumers. In its first weekend of pre-order availability, the iPad sold over 150,000 ... times, at one point moving at a rate of 25,000 per hour. Apple's iPad became available for pre-order last Friday. During that first full day of availability, sales peaked at an incredible 25,000 units per hour, before cooling off to about 1,000 an hour on Sunday evening. Cumulatively, sales for the three-day period reached 152,000 units. iPad Early ... (view more)

If you were one of the millions of people who flocked to see Avatar in theatres once, twice, or like some people I know, three times, then chances are you're familiar with the allure of 3D television and movies. Now, big box electronics retailer ... Best Buy has unveiled a new line of 3D TVs for the home -- but is the investment worth it? Best Buy recently announced it had reached a deal with TV manufacturer Panasonic Corp. towards selling the Japanese company's first wave of three-dimensional televisions sets. 3D TV: Big Bundle, Big Price Tag And already Best Buy has announced its first major ... (view more)

It appears Microsoft won't wait until April's Patch Tuesday to release a fix for a recently revealed zero-day vulnerability found in the company's popular web browser, Internet Explorer. The company is, according to reports, working furiously to get ... the patch out soon, but hasn't guaranteed it will arrive here before next month. Releasing emergency patches is rare for Microsoft. However, if the situation warrants fast action the company has demonstrated in the past that it will jump days or even weeks ahead of its monthly Patch Tuesday releases. In this case, Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday ... (view more)

Green Gnome GreenGnome is a modern desktop environment for Windows XP. Written completely from scratch, it aims to become the first Windows-inspired operating system to follow the Windows architecture designed by Microsoft, not based on GNU/Linux. ... The main goal of the GreenGnome project is to provide an operating system which is binary compatible with Windows. This will allow your Windows applications and drivers to run as they would on your Windows system. http://sites.google.com Auto Mute Hate when your PC blasts you with unexpected sound bytes or music? The useful little utilityAuto Mute ... (view more)

It's no secret: protecting PC games from piracy is a very difficult task. However, Ubisoft, one of the world's biggest game companies, recently introduced a digital rights management (DRM) system that attempted to curtail this issue: problem is, it ... hasn't worked out particularly well for gamers or Ubisoft. Video game publisher Ubisoft, based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is an all-star gaming company. Known for its Tom Clancy-based titles Splinter Cell and Endwar, as well as the popular Prince of Persia franchise, most casual gamers have encountered their products at least once. Unfortunately ... (view more)

Comodo Dragon Internet Browser Comodo Dragon Internet Browser is an alternative to Internet Explorer, Opera or Mozilla Firefox. It's main focus is performance and safety. It's based on Google's Chrome browser and infused with Comodo's unparalleled ... attention to security. http://www.comodo.com Winx HD Video Converter UPDATE: after publishing this entry online infopackets, users have reported that the "free" license being offered (link below) is restricted to 5 minutes of usage: please note this before downloading to avoid being disappointed. WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe builds in ... (view more)

Total Background Check Want to see what Big Brother knows about you? Here is a comprehensive list of websites and phone numbers for specialty consumer reports that might help people find out your employment, rental, and cheque-writing history. ... http://www.consumerist.com CPU Frequenz Pulling out your hair trying to figure out why your PC is running so excruciatingly slow this afternoon? Then try the very handy new program CPU Frequenz, a small tool to accurately identify the CPU frequency. http://www.softwareok.com Today's fresh software picks were provided courtesy of Bob Helmer at Shell ... (view more)

Microsoft yesterday unveiled its March Patch Tuesday offering, and by comparison to recent months it was a relatively calm affair. Only two security bulletins addressing eight vulnerabilities were announced, but they were joined by a warning related ... to a new zero-day Internet Explorer flaw which does not yet have a fix. Both of the bulletins Microsoft released in accordance with its March Patch Tuesday have been designated "important". That's a big step down from this past February's Patch Tuesday , where about one-fifth of the 26 vulnerabilities were considered "critical," Microsoft's ... (view more)